MONSTER MASH MEGAPOLL: NOMINATION THREAD
 

Given my forgetfulness and indolence, this thing's liable to still be running come Halloween so at least it's an appropriate theme, right? :innocent:

So, uh, let's nominate some monsters!

I'm not even going to ATTEMPT to limit the number of nominations because that's a recipe for cluster headaches. For purposes of this megapoll, I'm defining a monster as an inhuman creature who does not have control over their inhumanity, who were altered against their will. This rules out Scooby-Doo type guys in a monster suit or people who can voluntarily turn into a critter. Intelligence or lack thereof won't be a limiting factor, and neither will be good/evil.

Included:

Monsters mythological and Biblical (like the ones that NAF made such a stink about in the villains polls because they were more monstery than villainous). Collections of monsters (i.e. The Stymphalian Birds) are allowed.

Monsters cinematical, cartoonish, buffoonish, and video game-ical, be they muppets, puppets, kaiju (giant Japanese monsters, i.e. Godzilla), animated, or whatever. Yes, I'm including the muppets. Some of them have Monster right in their freaking names, people! :cookiemonster:

Monsters cryptozoological (Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc.) So they don't exist... neither do any fictional creatures, and they're part of the zeitgeist.

NOT included: humans who are evil or demented, but who are still fully human. They may do monstrous things, but that makes them evil humans, not monsters.

Humans who were VOLUNTARILY altered by themselves or someone else, even if things went to hell afterwards.

Humans who were altered by accident will be decided on a case-by-case basis, as this runs the gamut from people like Spider-Man who embraced the change and use it for good, to Two-Face, who kind of didn't.

I'm ruling out mutants because they've been well-covered in the hero and villain polls and extreme cases can be sorted by the other rules.

Other cases will be decided capriciously and randomly.

Megapoll runners. Those monsters are just the worst and are guaranteed the top spot ;)

So don't hesitate; nominate!

@Rebo or someone, would you please sticky this for me?

wow, excellent post. I appreciate all the thought and time those of you making megapolls put into it.

when you brought up monsters I thought, gosh, I don't LIKE monsters but didn't realize it could include :cookiemonster:

so, yay! :D

Grendel
Grendel's mother
The Monster In the Darkness (OotS)
Humbaba

Baba Yaga
Jersey Devil
Fouke monster (aka Boggy Creek monster)
Sasquatch
Yeti
Loch Ness monster
Champy (Lake Champlain monster)
Mothman

Frankenstein's monster (Adam)
Bride of Frankenstein
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Dracula
The Mummy
Wolfman

Do eldritch gods count? Because that gets us the Cthulhu pantheon.

The Id monster from Forbidden Planet.

Godzilla
Rodan
Mothra
King Ghidorah
Spiga
Gimantis
Gamera
Megalon

The Witch King of Angmar, (Leader of the Ring Wraiths)
The Balrog ("fly you fools")
Smaug (Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities)
Ancalagon the Black (largest of all dragons)
Shelob
Ungoliant (mother of Shelob, mother of darkness)

The Kraken
The Basilisk
Medusa and her Gorgon Sisters
Wendigo
The Minotaur
Fenris of course
Manticore
Harpies
Riddling Sphinx
Cyclops (Polyphemus is the one-eyed giant)
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
The Golem of Judah Loew ben Bezalel

the ants from Them!
the giant Gila monster from The Giant Gila Monster
the giant tarantula from The Giant Tarantula
the giant mollusks from The Creature That Threatened the World
the giant octopus from It Came from Beneath the Sea
the skeleton army from Jason and the Argonauts
the cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
the monolith monsters

Grendel vs. The Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. I'm loving this already :thumbs:

right?

in case I was unclear earlier I'm nominating COOKIE MONSTER!!!

:haw:

ETA: good ones from Lord of the Rings, Jim!! :D

Oh, heavens yes.

Definitely.

Nominating Gossamer before I forget.

Sharktopus
Pteracuda
Whalewolf
Avalanche sharks
the big mother pteradactyl from Terrordactyl

TWEET!! Flag on the play.

"Voluntary" doesn't count. He was seduced by power and corrupted, but that ring didn't just jump off the end table and plant itself on his finger now, did it?

Shai-Hulud
Xenomorph
Predator
the Fly

Dracula is pretty close to the same category. The Witch King did not know what he was in for but I accept him as disqualified. Drac was a very learned man that studied alchemy and then the dark arts. He's wasn't just a monster, he most likely made himself said.

YAY RATTY HAZ A POLL :confetti:

Did W/E forget to include Sauron? :rigs:

I'm siding with the Wraith Riders as bonafide monsters.

So, would this include Michael Moebius?

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms
Abyssal Chicken
Alhoon
etc., etc. You should probably DQ almost everything from D & D, otherwise we'll have people digging out old Monster Manuals and posting wholesale lists that include things only Frank could love.

Sauron is a Fallen Maia (Angel) not a monster. The Balrog is even a little iffy, but seems to have always been a spirit of fire, destruction and hate.

Shadowman
Slender Man
Candy Man
Chucky
(The creature from) Jeepers Creepers
(The creature from) It Follows
and of course, Pennywise from It

I'm willing to have both of them DQ'd based on "uncertainty of origin."

But not the Demigorgon (Stranger Things)

I don't know this one.

The ones I listed above D&D borrowed, I was going with the monsters of legends. I tried to get specific in fact in many cases.

Speaking of which, The Lernaean Hydra the Hercules killed is a good one.

Would chupacabra count?

CHUD
Zombie Leader (from I Am Legend--- the Will Smith version)
Morlocks
Gorn (Star Trek)

My bad. It's Michael MORBIUS.

I'll see you and raise you a cucuy.

The Gorn was a Starship Captain, no monster. You're being speciest. :)

Sounds like Morbius doesn't really count. I assume Mr. Hyde is out.

20 Million Miles to Earth creature
Cloverfield creature
The Thing (creature)
The Blob (creature)
(Creatures from) The Mist
THE KRAKEN
Mimic
Monster House
Christine :driveby:

Point(s) taken.

Grover
Oscar
Sweetums
Animal

James P. Sullivan aka Sully
Mike Wazowski
Henry J. Waternoose III
Randall Boggs
Roz
Celia

the Wampa
the Rancor
Salacious B. Crumb

How about fictional animals that are normal in their world but not in the real world?
Like:
Appa
Momo
Flopsie
Badgermoles
Platypus bears

Would Mr. Hyde count or not?
How about Mor'du and/or Queen Elinor from Brave?

Toothless the dragon
The Red Death
The Bewilderbeast

Stitch

Lilith
The Beast from the Doctor Who episode The Satan Pit
the Jagrafess
the Vashta Nerada
the Silents/Silence

Cool- I've never heard of that one!

yes! how are they not monsters? same with Sauron and the Balrog! :mad:

To me, and I have studied these matters deeply*. Sauron is a fallen angel or lesser god not a monster. The Balrog is similar but seems to be more of a monster or demon in its makeup. It is up to the Monster herself to decide though. Our poll master Rat Diva.

I think if we accept Dracula, we should absolutely accept The Witch King.


* I know, sad isn't it?

Sauron is a villain. Free will and all that. A monster is not evil. I just does monster things, e.g. eat children, not due to an agenda to take over the world, but only because they're yummy and tender. Nom-nom.
Kraken, Godzilla and The Creature [from the Black Lagoon] are monsters,
Dracula, Mr Hyde and Joker are villains.


Ratty @Rat Diva May I suggest a ban on cartoon/comics monsters. Cartoons draw quite a lot of animosity in polls and they tend to clutter up the roster only to be voted of. Only nit-wits Silenus and Naf vote for cartoon cars, villains. I think they OD'd on Sat morning cartoons in the 80's

R.O.U.S.es! (I don't think they exist. ;))

Graboids (Tremors)
giant mantis (The Deadly Mantis)
the infected astronaut (The Quatermass Xperiment)
leeches (Attack of the Giant Leeches)
locusts (Beginning of the End)

The 60s, but thank you!

Gonna say no, the key being NORMAL in their world.

I'm also going to ix-nay anthropomorphic creatures that act as human equivalents in their own worlds. Meaning something along the lines of Zootopia where it's a world of critters.

Hey, I'M one of those nitwits who ODed on cartoons back in the 80s! :mad:

Therefore, I have no choice but to make this guy the mascot for this megapoll :harumph:

Spoilered because big.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/32/ff...d0d079002e.jpg

(Art by Raul Moreno; I can't draw anything that cool.)

That's me: hung over!

But you wouldn't vote for a Scooby-Doo or Transformers monster over Godzilla, would you? Would you? Please don't kabong me...

No on Scooby because he's treated as a normal dog in universe... as far as talking dogs go...

I have to figure out what I'm going to do about robots.

Yay, Ratty back on the megapoll scene in big way! I nominate...

Rhindle (of course)
Jabberwocky
The Killer Tomatoes
Audrey II
The Cavity Creeps

The Serial Ape-ist (BBT)
Moloch (BtVS)
Sweet (BtVS)
The First Evil (BtVS)
Gachnar (BtVS)
The Gentlemen (BtVS)

Ok, as far as robots/computers/technological doodads go:

They won't count if they were created to be killbots or similar, only if they are sentient.

despite hearing things like this, the 21st century isn't working out nearly as cool as we'd hoped.

The Gargantuas (voting could be problematic with the pair, since one is "evil" and the other one is "good")


Caltiki (would be a good match-up going against The Blob)

The Borg!

If they are sentient, doesn't that make them "villains" instead of "monsters?"